Anne Earls Boylan began her career in jewellery at the Ulster Polytechnic studying 3-dimensional design,followed by a Masters at the Royal College of Art specialising in Jewellery. After a brief period exhibiting with Dazzle and workshop projects with the V&A, she embarked on a PGCE at UCL’s Institute of Education. Returning to N.I. in 1991 Earl Boylan began lecturing in jewellery at Ulster University where she remained until 2021.
She now lives and works in the countryside outside Belfast making jewellery that references the rich history of adornment. Drawing on a dynamic and explorative space, EB plays with the roles material, process and value contribute within her pieces, For her jewellery is a lively collaboration between material, artist, wearer and audience.
EB has exhibited nationally and internationally with works in the collection of Arts Council N.I. She is a founding member of ACJSNI, regional lead for ACJ and has recently been invited onto the Board of ACJ as a Director. EB has also curated a number of significant exhibitions and workshops, bringing the diversity and richness of contemporary jewellery to new audiences.
“Hubris is one of the great renewable resources.” –P. J. O’Rourke
Some things defy explanation leaving space for thoughts.
Explanations fix things, equations quantify and verify, in our attempt to make the world fully describable, repeatable and under our control.
I fear this hubris has removed the sole of a thing; diminishing it to an algorithm,
an equation to perform searches that explain its meaning,
setting its value in a manufactured system.
Words are a constant battle; I can’t bend them to my will
Just as they spill onto a page, the soul, the colour or soundscape rebels, defying my explanation.
Perhaps the works speak quietly for themselves..
and gently touch your imagination?
